Quality Nurse Specialist (Part-Time)

Job Description

Position Summary

Apply improvement methods to achieve successful outcomes: Use evidence-based structured improvement methods for all quality improvement projects. Promote the use of improvement methods and science throughout the organization.

Responsibilities

• Synthesize information from relevant resources to demonstrate current practice and identify opportunities for improvement. Identify sources of valid and reliable information and metrics to monitor performance trends.
• Analyze information from disparate sources. Analyze comparative data, benchmarks, and evidence-based practices for possible adaptation into the organization. Use valid and reliable data to support opportunity recommendations and illuminate key trends for stakeholders.
• Demonstrate expertise in the use of analytical and statistical tools and techniques including understanding of how process goals are established, measured and monitored; apply techniques and tools to identify variation and its causes; analyze input variable to identify critical factors that must be addressed to achieve optimal process performance.
• Communicate improvement priorities and results using narrative and visual tools by create graphs and charts that accurately reflect valid interpretation of findings; develop dashboards and scorecards to depict internal metrics and benchmark comparisons; create written and verbal communication to tell a story appropriate to the audience.
• Design and develop project plans including providing project coordination using project management tools, measurement plans, estimates costs to determine budget, incorporates evidence-based guidelines. Uses change management principles. Communicates project progress to all stakeholders through the project.
• Promote a safety culture and infrastructure by engaging stakeholders to understand all perspectives when addressing patient safety issues; model behaviors that promotes a safety culture; educate staff; support adoption of high reliability principles; design sustainable actions to improve patient safety.

Minimum Requirements

Bachelor's degree in applicable field or higher is required.

Active RN license

3 years or more experience in healthcare field

Certification in specialty preferred within 3 years and maintained thereafter.

Pay Range

$34.74 - $50.64

Other Information

Part- time position. 20 hours per week.

ECU Health

About ECU Health Medical Center

ECU Health Medical Center, one of four academic medical centers in North Carolina, is the 974-bed flagship hospital for ECU Health and serves as the primary teaching hospital for The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. ECU Health Medical Center has achieved Magnet® designation twice and provides acute and intermediate care, rehabilitation and outpatient health services to a 29-county region that is home to more than 1.4 million people.

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